azonenberg: for alignment, if you can get a substrate that's smaller than the movement range of the x/y laser, you could just align with chip edges (photo sensor on the other side, chip blocks laser light or not)

wolfspraul, well...i just test my old board which not every time 'booted' successfully...but I do real sure that reset ic is good though, my new rc2 board I'll add diode again to see if 'booted' every time

i can try it or not try it because we passed FCC & CE in German, didn't we? so if we replace with 0 ohms, should we do certification again? if the answer is NO, we leave those beads, or we mount 0 ohm.

lekernel: what's not so good about your slashdot story is that it's merely an announcement of an event months into the future. there should be a connection to something that's happening now or in the immediate future. e.g., "last call for schematics review"

lekernel: if you think the long-term announcement itself is also important, you could bundle it with some short-term item, even if minor. e.g., "new firmware now with full ethernet and tcp/ip support" or "ten new ''patches''" (then explain why this is not the kind of patch readers will usually expect) and then sneak in the long-term announcement somewhere later in the story